Re: Please test sparc32 kernel
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:46:40PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> The patch used to produce it from the linux-2.6 package (version
> 2.6.16-14) is available there as well. Please test it and let me know what
> happens. If you decide to roll your own kernel using the patch, please do
> *not* use the sparc32 SMP patch (or disable SMP), so that we can have a
> clear understanding of what kind of problems this patch solves (or does
> not :-).
Unfortunately, I'm having problems getting it to work on my SS5:
...
SCSI subsystem initialized
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 1 seconds for /sys/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 2 seconds for /sys/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 4 seconds for /sys/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 8 seconds for /sys/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 16 seconds for /sys/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Device /sys/block/sda/dev seems to be down.
Debugging opportunity, type ^D to continue.
This is with yaird 0.0.12-14. I'll try it again with initramfs when the
newer klibc arrives. Or maybe I messed something up?
With 2.6.12 (which works), it says:
...
SCSI subsystem initialized
esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
esp1: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCYC=25000 CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast)
ESP: Total of 2 ESP hosts found, 2 actually in use.
scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560W Rev: S71D
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: XM-4101TASUNSLCD Rev: 1084
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST
esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: 8925000 512-byte hdwr sectors (4570 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 8925000 512-byte hdwr sectors (4570 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
...
BTW, I noticed that the configuration scripts didn't consider yaird as a
candidate for generating the initrd when I was running 2.4.27, but when
I rebooted into 2.6.12 this problem went away.
Some good news though: the framebuffer problem that was being reported
with CG6 cards appears to have been fixed. (E.g. a blue background
would fade away, leaving about a centimetre of blue at the top.)
Also, my keyboard seems to work again, but it didn't with 2.6.12.
--
Stuart Brady
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